Sorry I forgot about this post. It is the thicker stuff and it comes in a roll of about 60 Inches x 30 inches or so. The other stuff is pre-cut and does not work well at all. I found this stuff on sale for 50% off and it is almost reasonable at that price. Remember when you are shopping that you can see thru the stuff that you are looking for. It is about 1/8 inch thick.

 

The full roll is about 3 inches or less in diameter if that helps;

 

Ray

 

Here is a crappy photo taken with an iPhone.

 

Ray

In case anyone reading this in the future has a similar question, here's what I finally decided to do (should have done this a couple of years ago!):

 

Bought a metal bookends set ($8 or $9) and superglued ($2) the bottom Saitek panel to one of the bookends that I had bent slightly to align its incline at the same angle as the panels tower's. (The bookend has non-skid material on its bottom.) I then slipped the tongue of the bookend under the lip of the throttle quadrant, so that the clamp that holds the throttle quadrant to the desk also secures the panels tower.

The panels still wobble just a slight bit when I activate the landing gear switch, but the tower is stable when I use any of the other switches or dials.

 

Now I can hide it all in the closet without leaving a trace when I'm not simming.

 

I don't know why Saitek doesn't just produce for the panels. There's clearly a need; I'm sure people would by them.

 

 

 

Nope, sadly not. If its blocking your view then your screens are probably too low, or your sitting to low down or the desk/yoke is too high..

 

I have several panels mounted to the top of my yoke, making it 4 panels high, and can still see over the top of it perfectly, and the tops of my screens are level with my eye line, as they should be.

 

What I found is that if you get your kit at the right height to begin with, you can bolt 3 panels on top of the yoke and still see over it no problem, and, its heavy enough to then stay put on its own, so you don't need to clamp it down..

 

It does sound like you have something really wrong with your set-up though if you cant see over a few panels on top of the yoke, either your desk is too high, chair too low or screens too low..

You should be able to sit at your desk with the very top of your screen level with your eye's...

 

Here's what my setup looks like now, although this bottom screen is larger than what I had before. (Don't mind all the cables, I have longer cables on order that I'll be able to hide better.)

 

I have a keyboard on top of the yoke box. Had I put the panels tower there instead, it would be blocking a good portion of the lower screen.